In celebration of International Women’s Day, we put together a list of the best female data journalists.
Traditionally thought of as a man’s domain, just as many women work in computer science, and many female journalists continue to dazzle in data journalism.
Check out these female data journalists and their excellent work below.
Katie Riley
Katie Riley, the data editor at Tortoise, is working on Westminster Accounts project in collaboration with Sky News. Westminster Accounts is an ongoing project releasing information on MPs’ income and contributions since the last election.
Marie Segger
Marie Segger edits the ‘Off the Charts’ newsletter at The Economist. This newsletter takes readers to behind-the-scenes and shows how their data news is being made.
Jana Tauschinski
Jana Tauschinski, BBC data journalist, and her team recently created NHS Tracker. The project showcases the NHS’s pressures this winter with visualisation using local ambulances, A&E and hospital waiting lists.
Ainslie Johnstone
Ainslie Johnstone at the Economist created a forecast based on historical modelling that predicted deaths this winter, considering the historical relationship between weather and energy costs. This article dealt with the deadly problems that a Russia-Ukraine war could bring.
Joely Santa Cruz
Joely Santa Cruz works at DC Thomson’s data journalism team led by Lesley-Anne Kelly. She recently wrote an article about the ongoing closure of GPs in Scotland over the last 11 years, including an interactive map.
Aisha Majid
Aisha Majid, a data journalist at The New Statesman, explored the issue of nurse pay through data visualisation. Her chart shows that pay for nurses affiliated with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) union lags behind EU members of the OECD.
Amy Borrett
Amy Borrett is a data journalist who just joined the FT last month. She demonstrated the dangers of earthquakes with visualisations comparing the deaths from earthquakes to those from natural disasters since the 19th century.